Hi all,
I was wondering if any of the rest of you ever knkew an elder who you considered to be a good elder, one that was really into the BIble more so than the Watchtower and who actually took his eldership seriously enough to actually care about the flock more than himself? I knew one.
He would spend all his spare time studying the Bible and gave pretty good talks. He was actually there any time someone needed him. Sadly, he was stripped of his eldership a while back. That he didn't stand up and fight for himself always disturbed me, but he has to live his own life.
What happened was, he got a new job and it entailed him delivering cigarettes on occasion. Another elder got wind of it and claimed offense at it. So, the rest of the gestapo goons got together and called him in. He could remain an elder or quit his job. Since he was in his sixties, jobs that paid decently aren't that easy for him to come by. He was strripped back to being just a publisher.
What I found ironic was that the elder that intially brought the complaint against him worked for a brewery and regularly drove the brewery van to KH meetings, parking out front , with full beer advertisment all over the sides of the van. No one had a problem with that, at all.
Truth be known, I think that the elder that was busted just didn't fit into the political cliques nor was he fast to recommend DFing for people, so they had to purge him from their midst. Sadly, the last I heard, he is still regularly attending meetings and hoping to made an elder again. Me? I would have given the hypocrites the air and ended up DAing myself, as I ended up doing.
Has anyone else heard of this stacking of the elder bodies?
If God's Spirit is filling a Kingdom Hall, how is it that Satan can manuever the ones within that Kingdom Hall at the same time?